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Yango Group

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Yango Group is a technology company that provides ride hailing, delivery, e-grocery, mapping, advertising technology, entertainment and an AI voice assistant.

Yango Group
FoundedOctober 2018; 7 years ago (2018-10)
HeadquartersDubai
Area servedOver 30 countries
IndustryTechnology
URLyango.com

The company is headquartered in Dubai[1][2][3] and operates in more than 30 countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and South America.[4][5] Its CEO is Daniil Shuleyko.[6]

History

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Yango began in 2018 as a brand developed by the team of Yandex Taxi and managed by Ridetech International B.V., a subsidiary of Yandex N.V., a Netherlands-registered holding company for the Russian IT conglomerate Yandex LLC.[7][8] Yango Group operates independently and is headquartered in Dubai.[9][10][11]

A Yango car in Espoo, Finland (2020).

Yango Ride, the company's main ride-hailing service, operates in more than 25 countries. It works with local taxi companies and technology partners rather than owning vehicles or employing drivers directly.[12][13][4]

Africa

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Yango Ride's beta app was launched in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on October 4, 2018.[14]

Since then Yango Ride has expanded to more African countries, including Ghana in 2019,[15][16] Senegal[17] and Cameroon[18] in 2021, Angola,[19] DRC, Mozambique and Zambia[20] in 2022, Namibia,[21] Ethiopia[22] and Morocco in 2023.

In November 2021,[23] street-hailing drivers of Ivory Coast organized strikes against Yango blaming the company for working with VTC drivers, which has been outside the scope of the current legislation in the country.[24] Later the VTC concept was introduced into the legislation, allowing Yango and other ride-hailing services in the market to obtain temporary licences.

Item delivery began rolling out in Africa in 2022, with Ivory Coast as the first market.[25]

In 2023, the company launched its food delivery business in Abidjan, Ivory Coast,[26] and Lusaka, Zambia.[27] The company later combined its services into a super-app offering ride-hailing, delivery and navigation.[28][29] Later in 2023, Yango's ride-hailing business started operations in Ethiopia,[30] reaching one million users within a year of its launch.[31]

In December 2024, Beninese authorities suspended Yango Ride, accusing it of operating without authorization, and asked the company to regularize the situation "within two months".[32]

Asia and the Middle East

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In 2022, the company introduced Yango Deli Tech (later renamed Yango Tech) in the GCC.[33] Yango Tech provides technology services to retailers and e-commerce companies, and by 2024 its partners included Nana, Al Sadhan and Spar.[33][34]

In 2022, its ride-hailing service was rolled out in Azerbaijan and Dubai, UAE.[35] As of September 2024, the service was also launched in Abu Dhabi in partnership with Abu Dhabi Mobility.[36]

In May 2025, Yango began offering trial services in Nepal.

In 2023, the company's ride-hailing service became available in Pakistan,[37] the car rental service Yango Drive went live in Dubai,[38] and Yango Tech expanded to Turkey, partnering with PtteM.[37]

Later that year, Yango launched Yasmina, an Arabic-speaking AI assistant.[39][40][41]

In September 2023, Yango Tech expanded to India.[42] In 2024 it partnered with the grocery store chain Bombay Gourmet in India.[42]

In November 2023, the company introduced its navigation app Yango Maps in Dubai.[43]

In early 2024, Yango launched Yango Play,[44] an entertainment app, in seven MENA countries, including the UAE, Kuwait and Egypt.[45]

In May 2024, Yango introduced warehouse robotics for order picking in Dubai.[46]

In December 2024, the group's advertising platform, Yango Ads,[47] partnered with Landmark Group's retail media division, Landmark Reach.[48]

Yango's ride-hailing business launched in Israel on December 10, 2018.[49] Its beta app was installed by 100,000 users in the first two weeks.[50] In 2024, the company sold its ride-hailing business in Israel to local investors.[51][52]

In 2025, Yango divested its remaining operations in Israel, transferring them to local franchise partners and exiting the market.[53]

Latin America

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Yango operates as a super-app in Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala and Colombia, offering ride-hailing, delivery, navigation and related services depending on the country.[54][55]

The company began its expansion into South America in August 2022 with the launch of its ride-hailing service in Bolivia, starting in La Paz and Santa Cruz.[56]

In 2023, Yango entered Guatemala with its ride-hailing service.[57] The same year, Yango Ride became available in Peru, and the company later added delivery, public transport data, maps and navigation in the country.[58]

The same year, Yango entered Colombia, offering Yango Ride in several cities including Medellin, Cali and Barranquilla.[59] In 2024, it added Yango Transport[60] and Yango Delivery.[61]

Europe

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In November 2018, Yango expanded to Finland.[62] Finland's largest national newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat, recommended not downloading the app because of security risks from data collection.[63][64] Following an investigation, the Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority found that Yango's terms of service were essentially the same as Uber's. Helsingin Sanomat later published a follow-up comparing the permissions requested by various taxi applications and placed Yango second after Uber.[65]

In 2021, Yango launched its ride-hailing platform in Norway[66] and rolled out its grocery delivery service in Paris and London.[67]

In 2022, the company closed express grocery delivery services in Britain and France, shifting to a B2B model focused on Q-commerce, e-commerce and retail solutions under the Yango Tech brand.[68]

In August 2023, the Norwegian and Finnish data privacy authorities told Yango to stop processing data about their citizens in Russia, after the Russian government introduced a legal duty for the company to provide personal information to the Russian Federal Security Service.[69][70][71] The Finnish regulator later clarified that the legislation did not apply to taxi services and did not enforce the ban. Norway, which had considered a comparable ban, also chose not to issue a formal order. As of 2025, the service continues to operate in both countries.[72]

See also

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References

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